Recollections of the great war in the air / [James McConnell] ; edited and introduced by Bob Carruthers.

Author: McConnell, James R. (James Rogers), 1887-1917.

ImprintHenley in Arden, Warwickshire: Coda Books, 2012.

Description97 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:Originally published as Flying for France With the American Escadrille at Verdun by James R. McConnell, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York in 1917.

Note:Verdun -- Verdun to the Somme -- Personal letters from Seargeant McConnell-at the front -- How France trains pilot aviators -- Against odds.

Note:In 1915 James Roger McConnell enlisted as a US volunteer in the French Flying Corps. He was part of a remarkable band of American volunteers which were formed into the famous American "Lafayette" Escadrille. "Flying fo France" was his personal account of the war in the air as seen through the eyes [of] a front-line pilot of the American Escadrille, which was then based at Verdun. His memoirs produce an amazing insight into the early aerial battles and trace the evolution of aerial warfare as the rickety aircraft of 1915 rapidly evolved into the purpose built fighters of 1917.--Back cover.

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